3. Once ASPEX has completed the scan, the images and report will be posted on ASPEX’s website here.

Note: It should take about 2 weeks for the results to post to the ASPEX website, and they will also notify you via email. Samples scanned for free will not be returned.

This is a wonderful opportunity for your students to see an item on a super high power microscope! Have you ever seen the little hairs on the eye of a fly? Or up close in the crack of a piece of granite? What does dog hair look like magnified thousands of times? Want to know what moldy cheese really looks like up close? Whatever you are curious to see they will scan and post your pictures online. This would be a great group project! You could get all your homeschool friends together and send in your items. Then you could complete to see who had the grossest, coolest, most unusual, smoothest, most spiral, etc. item. The kids could write reports about the difference. I bet you could even work a lapbook into this somehow!